- I have personally gone to the website of the Terri Schindler
Schiavo Foundation, www.terrisfight.org, and read every court document
filed in the last several years. It makes me crazy when people on TV news
and talk shows start their mouths without engaging their brains. They make
comments that are so beyond the pale that it's no wonder people voting
in polls base their vote on bad information and completely skew the results.
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- There must be an investigation of this case. It doesn't
pass the Smell Test. In the news this week, authorities are calling for
the death penalty for a sex offender who has confessed to the kidnapping
and killing of a 9-year-old Florida girl! He will receive every defense
that is being denied to Terri Schiavo. He's had 24 previous arrests. Terri
Schiavo has never committed a capital crime yet she is under a judicial
death sentence!
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- Florida protects its pets and stray animals. Starve your
dog, horse or cockatiel to death in Florida and you'll go to jail, but
disabled humans are fair game.
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- Michael Schiavo's attorney George Felos, an activist
for euthanasia, has written a book calling for euthanasia of Florida's
Alzheimer patients. Euthanasia is still illegal but Felos is getting around
it.
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- Michael Schiavo's attorney George Felos is on the Board
of Directors of the Suncoast Hospice where she's been warehoused for years.
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- Michael Schiavo has allegedly denied rehabilitation and
physical therapy for Terri from the beginning. Malpractice suit awarded
her $700,000 for rehabilitation. Michael received $300,000. Where's the
money Mike?
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- Activist Judge George Greer is acting as defense attorney,
guardian ad litem, jury, prosecutor, judge and executioner of Terri Schiavo.
Oh, that's right ... she's never had her own attorney.
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- Greer has denied the Department of Children and Families
(DCF) to investigate 30 accusations of spousal abuse.
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- Michael Schiavo, the alleged "loving" husband
has for ten years been living with his common-law wife and his two children
by her. Is that the actions of till death do us part?
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- Michael Schiavo is 6'3" tall, weighs 250 lb. and
allegedly has a volatile temper. I won't even mention he's been overheard
to say "Isn't the bitch dead yet?" to the staff at the Suncoast
Hospice. He should make the decision? Not! Of course the one's who've heard
him say that have been fired or have quit in disgust. Their affidavits
are available on the (court documents section) of www.terrisfight.org ...
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- Michael Schiavo conveniently remembered that she said
years ago the she wouldn't want to live this way. He remembered this after
the malpractice suit awarded more than $1 million to Terri for her rehabilitation.
$300 thousand award went to Michael. He's paid $385,000 to euthanasia lawyer
Felos, plus more yet to Felos's assistants.
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- Terri Schiavo is not terminal. She is reasonably healthy.
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- Terri Schiavo is not on any life saving machines, only
food and water! Same thing we all need for survival. If she could swallow
solid food would you withhold it anyway? Would you starve babies because
they need you to hold their bottle to feed them??
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- Terri Schiavo has never had the rights that convicted
murderers on death row have available to them (habeus corpus). A death
row sentence is never starvation.
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- Terri's medical records from the day of her "collapse"
have not been investigated. Allegedly there are numerous suspicious fractures
on bone scans.
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- Judge Greer ignored and dismissed testimony from Terri's
friend about Terri's anger that Karen Anne Quinlan's parents had disconnected
her ventilator. Greer ruled that Quinlan had died in 1979, therefore Terri
must have been a mere child when she made the comment. Quinlan actually
died on June 11, 1985. which made Terri an adult when she complained about
the ventilator being removed. [Terri's friend Diane Meyer testified in
2002 that Terri, in 1982, stated to Meyer that she disapproved of the Quinlan's
decision to remove their daughter from life-support. -ed.]
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- Greer refused to reverse his ruling based on his own
mistake. Instead he ruled that Michael Schiavo's hearsay testimony would
stand. If the judge had reversed his hearsay ruling, Schiavo would not
have been made Terri's guardian. I won't even go into the judge acting
as Terri's guardian ad litem while he was sitting as a judge.
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- Terri Schiavo has never had her own independent attorney.
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- Terri Schiavo has never been indicted. Wait, she's never
been charged with a capital crime!
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- Terri Schiavo has never had due process. Wait, she's
never been charged with a capital crime!
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- Terri Schiavo has never had a jury of her peers. Wait,
she's never been charged with a capital crime!
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- If you were a quadriplegic, but otherwise in good health
ñ not terminally ill ñ would you really choose to be starved
to death? Think about this tonight when you have your dinner. Terri is
starving through the actions of activist judges and an estranged husband
and no fault of her own other than making a poor choice in men.
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- - Karen August lives with her husband Kevin on their
30-acre ranch in rural Nevada. She is a retired graphic designer who has
been dealing with multiple sclerosis for 19 years. Her interests are photographing
the Nevada desert on an ATV and advocating for the handicapped.
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